NKVD Border Troops

GPTKB entity

Statements (52)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:military_organization
gptkbp:activePeriod 1918–1954
gptkbp:badge border guard badge
gptkbp:country gptkb:Soviet_Union
gptkbp:dissolved 1954
gptkbp:engagedIn gptkb:World_War_II
gptkb:Soviet–Finnish_War
gptkb:Soviet_occupation_of_the_Baltic_states
gptkb:Soviet_invasion_of_Poland
gptkbp:function anti-smuggling operations
fighting infiltrators
guarding borders
supporting internal security operations
gptkbp:garrison gptkb:Moscow
gptkbp:headquarters gptkb:Moscow
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label NKVD Border Troops
gptkbp:notableCommander gptkb:Lavrentiy_Beria
gptkb:Nikolai_Yezhov
gptkb:Vsevolod_Merkulov
gptkbp:notableEvent gptkb:Soviet–Japanese_border_conflicts
gptkb:Soviet_occupation_of_Bessarabia_and_Northern_Bukovina
Great Purge (internal security)
Katyn massacre involvement (security)
Operation Bagration (rear security)
Operation Barbarossa defense
Operation Lentil (Chechen deportations)
Operation North (religious deportations)
Operation Priboi (Baltic deportations)
Operation Spring (Polish deportations)
Operation Ulusy (Kalmyk deportations)
Operation Volna (Belarusian deportations)
Operation West (Ukrainian deportations)
Soviet–Afghan border security
Soviet–Chinese border security
Soviet–Finnish border security
Soviet–German border incidents
Soviet–Polish War (border security)
Soviet–Romanian border security
mass deportations in Baltic states
gptkbp:parentOrganization gptkb:People's_Commissariat_for_Internal_Affairs
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:NKVD
gptkbp:predecessor Cheka Border Troops
gptkbp:role border security
internal security
counter-intelligence
gptkbp:size hundreds of thousands (at peak)
gptkbp:subordinateUnit NKVD Main Directorate of Border and Internal Troops
gptkbp:successor gptkb:KGB_Border_Troops
gptkbp:uniform distinctive green piping
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:KGB_Border_Troops
gptkb:General_Ivan_Maslennikov
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7